colossus

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Now, he will oversee all of Disney and its 230,000 workforce as the entertainment colossus tries to soar in the streaming age amid the erosion of the company’s once mighty legacy cable TV business.

From Los Angeles Times

For most of his life, Michelangelo’s 16th-century biographer Ascanio Condivi tells us, the artist aspired to carve a colossus out of a coastal mountain, a figure visible from ships at sea.

From The Wall Street Journal

But that didn’t guarantee its triumph as a financial and cultural colossus.

From The Wall Street Journal

As JPMorgan’s workers trickled back to work, they saw the new colossus rising about one floor every week as they looked out of their cafeteria windows and cubicles.

From The Wall Street Journal

Spanish banking giant BBVA's hostile takeover bid for smaller rival Sabadell has failed, dashing its hopes of creating a new European sector colossus, the stock market regulator announced on Thursday.

From Barron's